Patents by Inventor Earl Keith Miller

Earl Keith Miller has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 10986992
    Abstract: A method, or corresponding dynamic display system, for customizing a controller of a display system includes presenting a visual stimulus to a subject at at least one known location relative to the subject's eye gaze; measuring brain activity of the subject's left and right brain hemispheres in response to the subject's viewing of the stimulus; processing the measured brain activity to determine a frequency-dependent metric of the measured brain activity; assessing independent cognitive capacities of the subject's left and right brain hemispheres based on the frequency-dependent metric; and adjusting a function of the controller in the display system according to the assessed independent capacities, such as by adjusting the function to change a stimulus load in a visual hemifield according to the brain activity in the contralateral brain hemisphere. Example applications include head-up display (HUD), augmented reality (AR) or virtual reality (VR) display systems, and brain injury assessment systems.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2021
    Assignee: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Inventors: Earl Keith Miller, Timothy Joseph Buschman, Simon John Kornblith
  • Patent number: 9927940
    Abstract: A method of displaying information includes presenting representations of information in a manner accounting for independent cognitive capacities corresponding to a subject's left and right halves of visual space. Weightings of importance may be assigned to the information and used to display the representations in the left half or the right half of the visual space with zero or few other representations. Presenting the representations can also include inspecting content of the information and determining a position on a display to present the content as a function of the information previously, currently, or in the future displayed on the display. In a display system, a presentation unit is configured to present, e.g. generate, representations of information in a manner accounting for the independent cognitive capacities, and a display unit is configured to display the representations. Displaying information can include arranging physical objects in locations of a subject's expected visual space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2018
    Assignee: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Inventors: Earl Keith Miller, Timothy Joseph Buschman
  • Publication number: 20180049636
    Abstract: A method, or corresponding dynamic display system, for customizing a controller of a display system includes presenting a visual stimulus to a subject at at least one known location relative to the subject's eye gaze; measuring brain activity of the subject's left and right brain hemispheres in response to the subject's viewing of the stimulus; processing the measured brain activity to determine a frequency-dependent metric of the measured brain activity; assessing independent cognitive capacities of the subject's left and right brain hemispheres based on the frequency-dependent metric; and adjusting a function of the controller in the display system according to the assessed independent capacities, such as by adjusting the function to change a stimulus load in a visual hemifield according to the brain activity in the contralateral brain hemisphere. Example applications include head-up display (HUD), augmented reality (AR) or virtual reality (VR) display systems, and brain injury assessment systems.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 16, 2017
    Publication date: February 22, 2018
    Inventors: Earl Keith Miller, Timothy Joseph Buschman, Simon John Kornblith
  • Publication number: 20120308972
    Abstract: A method of displaying information includes presenting representations of information in a manner accounting for independent cognitive capacities corresponding to a subject's left and right halves of visual space. Weightings of importance may be assigned to the information and used to display the representations in the left half or the right half of the visual space with zero or few other representations. Presenting the representations can also include inspecting content of the information and determining a position on a display to present the content as a function of the information previously, currently, or in the future displayed on the display. In a display system, a presentation unit is configured to present, e.g. generate, representations of information in a manner accounting for the independent cognitive capacities, and a display unit is configured to display the representations. Displaying information can include arranging physical objects in locations of a subject's expected visual space.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 1, 2012
    Publication date: December 6, 2012
    Applicant: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Inventors: Earl Keith Miller, Timothy Joseph Buschman